Child Care In California

1
Child Care In California

• California Child Care Resource and Referral
  Network
• 111 New Montgomery Street, 7th Floor
• San Francisco, CA 94105
• 415-882-0234
• www.rrnetwork.org
• Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Community
  Development Forum
• July 8, 2003

2
Child Care in California

• Licensed Child Care
• Licensed child care centers
• Licensed family child care homes

• License-exempt Child Care
• Relatives
• Neighbors
• Nannies
• Babysitters
• School-age and recreation programs

3
The California Child Care Portfolio

• Licensed child care supply data collected from
  the resource and referral agencies (RRs).
• RR agencies serve every county.
• RRs funded by the State to provide child care
  referrals to parents and assist child care
  providers.

4
Licensed Child Care Supply in California

• Child Care Centers
• 9,407 child care centers
• 576,929 center spaces
• 27,715 infant spaces
• 406,278 preschool spaces
• 142, 936 school age spaces

Source 2001 California Child Care Portfolio CA
Child Care RR Network
5
Licensed Child Care Supply in California (2)

• Family Child Care Homes
• 32,210 homes
• 309,942 spaces

Source 2001 California Child Care Portfolio CA
Child Care RR Network
6
Child Care Supply and Demand
Source 2001 California Child Care Portfolio CA
Child Care RR Network
7
Child Care Supply and Demand (2)

• Los Angeles 16
• Orange 14
• Riverside 17
• San Bernardino 15
• San Diego 26

Percent of the estimated need for licensed child
care met by the licensed child care supply
California 22

• Alameda 32
• Contra Costa 29
• Marin 39
• San Francisco 41
• San Mateo 26

Source 2001 California Child Care Portfolio CA
Child Care RR Network
8
Primary Child Care Arrangements in CA Children
Birth to Five
Source Urban Institute Primary Child Care
Arrangements of Employed Parents Findings from
the 1999 National Survey of Americas Families.
May 2001
9
Paying for Child Care Services

• Private pay
• Family fees
• Private scholarships
• Informal arrangements

• Publicly funded
• Local, state and federal funds
• Administered by local and state agencies
• Child care contracts
• Child care vouchers
• Child care quality improvement

10
Paying for Child Care Services Average Parent
Fees
Source 2001 Regional Market Rate Survey of
California Child Care Providers. California Child
Care Resource and Referral Network
11
Paying for Child Care Services Public Funding

• Working parents with income below 75 of the
  state median income (32,760 for a family of two)
  are eligible for help to pay for child care.
• An estimated 280,000 eligible, working families
  need, but do not receive, a child care subsidy.
• Source California Budget Project, How Many
  Children Need Subsidized Care in California,
  March 2001

12
Paying for Child Care Services Public Funding (2)

• 584,345 children statewide (2.2 billion) funded
  by the California Department of Education
• 22 of families lt 25 SMI
• (10,920)
• 54 of families 25 - lt 50 SMI (21,840)
• 23 of families 50 - lt 75 SMI
• Source CD800 Child Care Annual Aggregate Report,
  FFY 2001-2002 California Department of Education
• CDE Survey of Statewide Participation in
  Subsidized Child Care, July 1999-June 2000

13
Paying for Child Care Services Public Funding (3)

• 73,000 (455 million) children funded by the
  California Department of Social Services
  subsidies to parents in the earliest phases of
  moving from welfare to work (12/02). (Source
  CDSS Website)
• 86,329 children participate in Head Start
  programs.

14
Paying for Child Care Services Public Funding (4)

• CDE and CDSS also fund programs to improve the
  quality of child care services
• Child care resource and referral agencies
• Local child care planning councils
• Regional resource centers

• Building Child Care Collaborative
• Child care teacher training
• Recruitment and retention of family child care
  homes providers
• TrustLine
• Child Care Licensing
• Child Care Advocates Program
• And more!

15
Paying for Child Care Services Local Funding

• City and county governments
• Quality child care initiatives
• Child Care Facilities Fund
• Local First Five Commissions
• Teacher compensation and retention programs
• Initiatives to improve child care quality and
  accessibility

16
Important child care issues

• Increase the supply of licensed child care in
  under-served areas of the state to meet the needs
  of working parents.
• Increase the supply of facilities to meet the
  future needs of a universal preschool system in
  CA.

17
Important child care issues (2)

• Preserve funding to maintain the current child
  care system in the budget crisis.
• Increase the amount of subsidies to ensure all
  eligible, low-income, working families can access
  child care services.
• Ensure a high quality early care and education
  workforce by increasing staff qualifications,
  compensation and retention.